Super 8: “AGFA – A color picture evolves”.
...let's continue with part 2 of these unknown films that Agfa-Gevaert must have sent to dealers back in the late 70s, or at least planned to do so. This flick…
Category Historic
AGFA – The Hobby Lab
A Super 8 promotional film from Agfa-Gevaert, ca. 1979 This wonderful promotional film for dealers was found by film friend Peter Willems at the film fair in Deidesheim last year,…
Unopened Eastman Transparent film, expired 1903, exposed in 2021
When I wrote here in 2018 about my experiments with Eastman Color Negative 7254 from 1972, I never dreamed what much older types of film I would find, still unexposed.…
Cameras of Dreams: A Book about Prototypes
Jürgen Lossau, author of the highly-saught standard books “Film Projectors” and “Film Cameras 1+2” cannot help it: In a market climate in which the print media is chronically suffering, and…
Elmo Album – the luxury “click & whir”. A repair report
Die "Elmo Album" ist eine recht seltene Super 8 Kamera — und das ist schade, denn sie hat einige wirkliche Besonderheiten. Das besonderste (und zugleich heute irrelevanteste) ist wohl, dass…
Simplified Color Processing Forms
In 1978, so more than 40 years ago, the photochemistry legend Patrick D. Dignan published a highly interesting script with the title "How to Compound ... Simplified Color Processing Formulas."…
DigIt: The archive of everyday analogue life
Digit is a WDR project in which new photos and films from everyday life of the past are added to a database every day. Digit is designed to prevent these…
SIlent Movie Concert in a church with analogue 35mm film projection
No, it was not a loveless DVD or Blu-ray played from the laptop (preferably with a projected disc menu and several trial-and-error attempts in front of a gathered audience, as…
Short documentary “Films from Wolfen”
German MDR's "Mediathek" presents a beautiful, ten-minute short documentary about Orwo yesterday and today. There are glimpses into yesterday, today, dark rooms and a perforator in action can be seen…
Memories of Eumig and Wiener Neudorf
Wanted: Small format films from 1950 to 1980 100 years of Eumig – 1919, the company was founded, and with up to 7,000 employees in the 1970s was the largest…